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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
Astronaut
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
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Jeffrey Preston ''Jeff'' Bezos
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We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.
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If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
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We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
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I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.
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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail you have to be willing to think long term and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
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I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.
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The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.”
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines ... Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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We were hoping to build a small profitable company and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
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The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.
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Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.
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